Which is faster and compared with each other
Thunderbolt 3 40Gb/s
Thunderbolt 2 20Gb/s
USB 3.1 10Gb/s
USB 3 5Gb/s
Month: September 2019
MacOS Splunk Enterprise Management
Words on configuring Splunk Enterprise for MacOS and by MacOS, and what I mean by that is machines, the server and all clients with client forwarders installed are ALL running Apple MacOS.
At the end of the day all I am doing now is deploying apps to the local forwarders, not relying on the Enterprise app to handle client scripts and inputs – will end up having JAMF handle local forwarder app management moving forward.
Add Custom Artwork to Splunk Dashboard
I created my own app place holder for Artwork
ht-tp://yourserver:8000/en-US/static/app/YOURAPP/images/yourimage.png
Link: https://answers.splunk.com/answers/136162/add-picture-to-dashboard.html
Remove entire directory and contents
sudo rm -rf
Copy a whole folder from a remote computer
scp -r user@host:/Sourcefiles/ /Users/local/Desktop/Example/
Open Directory logs
sudo odutil show all
Changing OD password by command line
Login to the server running Open Directory and run the following to be prompted to change snoopdog’s password
sudo passwd -i OpenDirectory -l /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -u diradmin snoopdog
found here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1509269
NAME
passwd — modify a user’s password
SYNOPSIS
passwd [-i infosystem [-l location]] [-u authname] [user]
DESCRIPTION
The passwd utility changes the user’s password. If the user is not the super-user, passwd first prompts for the current password and will not continue unless the correct password is entered.
When entering the new password, the characters entered do not echo, in order to avoid the password being seen by a passer-by. The passwd utility
prompts for the new password twice in order to detect typing errors.
The new password should be at least six characters long and not purely alphabetic. Its total length should be less than _PASSWORD_LEN (currently 128
characters), although some directory systems allow longer passwords. Numbers, upper case letters, and meta characters are encouraged.
Once the password has been verified, passwd communicates the new password to the directory system.
-i infosystem
This option specifies where the password update should be applied. Under Mac OS X 10.5 and later, supported directory systems are:
PAM (default) Pluggable Authentication Modules.
opendirectory
A system conforming to Open Directory APIs and supporting updates (including LDAP, etc). If no -l option is specified, the search node is used.
file The local flat-files (included for legacy configurations).
nis A remote NIS server containing the user’s password.
-l location
This option causes the password to be updated in the given location of the chosen directory system.
for file,
location may be a file name (/etc/master.passwd is the default)
for nis,
location may be a NIS domainname
for opendirectory,
location may be a directory node name
for PAM,
location is not used
-u authname
This option specifies the user name to use when authenticating to the directory node.
user This optional argument specifies the user account whose password will be changed. This account’s current password may be required, even when
run as the super-user, depending on the directory system.
FILES
/etc/master.passwd The user database
/etc/passwd A Version 7 format password file
/etc/passwd.XXXXXX Temporary copy of the password file
SEE ALSO
chpass(1), login(1), dscl(1), passwd(5), pwd_mkdb(8), vipw(8)
Robert Morris and Ken Thompson, UNIX password security.
HISTORY
A passwd command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
Mac OS X August 18, 2008 Mac OS X
DSCL and scripting mentioned here: https://technology.siprep.org/terminal-command-to-change-a-user-password-on-a-mac/
Open Directory audit log data into Splunk
illustrated Splunk server configuration steps
I put Splunk server scripts for dispersing here
Splunk >> bin >> scripts
sudo nano /Applications/Splunk/bin/scripts/Example_OD.sh
Script input:
#!/bin/bash
sudo log stream –level info –style syslog
# trying json
sudo log stream –level info –style syslog
Forwarder Management:
Settings >> Forwarder management
Settings >> Forwarder management >> Clients
Settings >> Forwarder management >> Server Classes
New Server Class
Data >> Data Inputs
Data >> Data Inputs >> Forwarded Inputs >> Scripts
Change the sourcetype to json
Once everything is in place you should be able to search and find information in this example I created am account “teddyboy” in OPen Directory, the following shows a query from the script which stream the slapd, and opendirectoryd data
Change/check the local inputs.conf files from the scripts running on the Open Directory server.
sudo nano /Applications/SplunkForwarder/etc/apps/_server_app_OD_Servers/local/inputs.conf
reads:
GNU nano 2.0.6 File: …ps/_server_app_OD_Servers/local/inputs.conf
[script://$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/_server_app_OD_Servers/bin/ScriptName_OD.sh]
disabled = 0
index = default
interval = 60.0
sourcetype = linux_messages_syslog
Trying this
sourcetype = oracle:audit:xml
or this
sourcetype = _json
Change/check the local inputs.conf files from the forwarder running on the Open Directory server.
sudo nano /Applications/SplunkForwarder/etc/system/local/inputs.conf
reads:
[monitor:///var/audit/]
[default]
host = ClientMachineHostName.local
Change/check the local output.conf files from the forwarder running on the Open Directory server.
[tcpout]
defaultGroup = default-autolb-group
[tcpout:default-autolb-group]
server = 10.1.2.3:9997
[tcpout-server://10.1.2.3:9997]
To search and find OD account creation success, I query from the json sourcetype
ODNodeCreateRecord request
—–
This records barbie account record getting created: dsAttrTypeStandard:RecordName\” = (\n barbie\n
____
Delete a record, “eventMessage” : “Delete a record“, “processImagePath” : “\/Applications\/Server.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/Server“,
{ “processImageUUID” : “388D1B12-E930-3D81-AB34-6EFAA44E12EF“, “processUniqueID” : 28164, “threadID” : 1386945, “timestamp” : “2019-09-22 06:32:34.581205-0400“, “traceID” : 1181143700349387010, “eventType” : “OSActivityCreateEvent“, “activityID” : 857809, “processID” : 28164, “machTimestamp” : 395240545174841, “timezoneName” : “”, “senderProgramCounter” : 56111, “eventMessage” : “Delete a record“, “senderImageUUID” : “29F55F7B-379F-3053-8FF3-5C6675A3DD4D“, “processImagePath” : “\/Applications\/Server.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/Server“, “senderImagePath” : “\/System\/Library\/Frameworks\/OpenDirectory.framework\/Versions\/A\/Frameworks\/CFOpenDirectory.framework\/Versions\/A\/CFOpenDirectory” }
JAMF Pro Configuration Settings commands
jamf-pro config list
sudo jamf-pro server restart
Link to MySQL setup https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/articles/631/creating-the-jamf-pro-database-using-the-jamf-pro-server-tools-command-line-interface
UDP Syslog data into Splunk Enterprise
How I poll Cisco switch syslog data at home
Settings >>Data>> Data Inputs >> UDP
